Sausage broiler



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UNITED STATES OTTO FEST, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

SAUSAGE BROILER.

Application filed June 26,1925. Serial No. 39,662.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, Orro Fns'r, a citizen of the Republic of Germany, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Im rovements in Sausage Broilers, of which t 1e following is a specification. This invention relates to cooking apparatus and particularly to such as are designed for continuous operation, with special reference to prepared meat foods in sausage form known as frankfurters, wienerwursts or Vienna sausages.

Due to their convenient size, agreeable taste, ease of mastication and nutritive value, these articles have attained an enviable lace among food products, having an ever increasing popularity and an enormous sale in a prepared condition ready for immediate consumption. v i

Theordinar process of preparation includes a meta lic late supported overa stove or heater, sucl i for instance as may be supplied with a plurality of gas jets, the sausages being placed in rows upon the plate and turned from side to side as the cooking p o r It is to be noted that cooking under such conditions is far from being uniform, some portions being nearly or quite charred and others substantially raw, and furthermore, the cooking lacks sanitation, being exposed to dust and particles borne in the air to which the articles are. freely open,-besides the unsanitary methods used. in handling them.

i It is therefore one of the objects of the instant invention to provide an apparatus in which the sausages are subjected to an even heat from all sides, requiring no turnor touching with the hand, and are enveloped 1n such manner as to be protected from dust and germ laden air throughout the process of cooking.

A further feature is in the provision of means for controlling the temperature to suit the requirements, the apparatus being capable of operating at a high speed continuously, and the product delivered in a per- .fectly cooked condition, includin all the flavor and juices, with the usejof far less gas or other fuel than ordinarily.

Another aim is to produce an'apparatus capable of delivering hot frankfurters in their best possible condition, and providing them with film of mustard like condiment, if desired, as part of the finished product.

, These several important aims and objects, together with other features that will later become apparent, areaccomplished by the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and shown in Figure 5 is apartial end elevational and 1 sectional view, the section being taken on line 5-5 ofFigure 1.

Figure 6 is a partial front elevational and sectional View, the section being taken. on line 6-6 of Figure 5. g

The apparatus as shown in the drawings consists of a stand having legs 10 provided with flanges 11 by which it may be secured to a floor, these legs being cross braced and riveted to present a firm structure having at its upper ends a pair of rigid plates Securely fixed between these plates is an oblong rectangular metallic casing 13 serving as an oven and in which may be fixed a shelf 14 for such purpose as may be required.

A door 15 is provided with hinges 16 at the front side of the oven and furnished with a handle 17, giving access to the interior, the walls of which are lined throughout with sheets 18 of asbestos or other sul' .stance of heat non-conducting nature, fumes, if any, and excess heat pass ng out through a chimney 19 on top of the oven.

At one end of the apparatus a pair of gas pipes 20, provided with cocks 21, enter heads 22 connecting with tubes 23 passing in spaced parallel relation longitudinally through the oven and its supportplates 12, to terminate in caps 24 at their op aosite ends, these tubes having a plurality 0 perforations 25 through which gas passes to be ignited within the oven.

Midway between and slightly above the burner tubes -i thick-Walled Stee t be Figure 5.

oven, on a spindle 31, driven by hand or motor as maybe desired, this pulley 'driving an endless chain entrained over the rollers 28 and through theoven tube 26, passing closely adjacent its inner lower surface. i

It will now be understood that if sausages indicated at .XiFigure 3,,be j laced on the surface of the. travelling cha1n"32, at the left hand endof the machine, the gas having'been previously lit the ofv'entube 26 heated to a proper degree, the sausages will be delivered at the other end of the machine in a thoroughly and uniformly cooked condition, ready to be consumed.

.It will be clear that the speed'of the chain ma be varied to suit anclithe gas controlled in conformity with the requirements, sufiicient only being required to maintain the tube 26 at such heat as will broi'llthe food during its passage.

In addition to the foregoing a pair of raised supports [33- have o'utturned flanges 34 forming'a seatior a cylindrical glass container 35, held thereon by a pair of partially encircling spring arms 3 61at the upper end of a sup orts? secured to one of the flanges 34.

The container has in its lower end a plug 38, such asa cork, having a concave upper face through 'whi'ch is an axial opening 39 and a conical valve seat at the upper end of the opening. v Y

A similar tapered closure l0 is entered in the top of the receptacle 35' th'rou h which freely passes al-rod 41' having .a wei'g I t e 2 on its extending top; andnear' the lower end is fixed a valve plug 43controlling the entrance to the passage 95l?l 18 stem extending below th l w r: le' ureies' bes Se n in This ontai er is adapted to h ld mustard or like semiliqu'idlmassto, beused as a "condiment and is applied automatically in the following manner. I v

A f rooved roller AA is provided *with a s indi is nee-y. "operab n sl s 46 in it e supports 33, the spindle. normally reste at t ibe tom of he s j ts, direotlyabove and spaced m! the diaeenti o er es e iwh htli rh in3 1QPsre tissues-engages sau ag a causesit to advanoe'ovef'the' dehveryroller an "oven supported' by said stand, tubeffixed in said ovenyseidtubehaving open extending ends, a trayelling-conveyor 28, it will, due to its diameter, raise the roller 44%, which is directly under the lower end of-the rod 41, raising the valve 43 and releasing -a.;porti=on of the contents of the container which, passing down through the opening 39, is delivered on the grooved surface of the roller and transmitted to the sausage, passing between the rollers.

The upper, dispensing roller 44 is provided with a groove 4-7 at its center, which aids materially in applying the condiment, which is delivered in a thin stream upon the surfaceof the sausage, just prior to its discharge from the chain upon a receiving plate v458, where it is accessible.

It Will be understood that the mustard applying device maybe omitted if preferred and that the sec e of; the invention. includes the use of any orm of heating device that be desired. j

e foregoing disclosure is to be regard ed as descriptive and illustrative only,'and not as restrictive or limitative of the invention, of whichobviouslyan embodiment may be constructed including many modifications without departing'from the general scope herein indicated and denoted in the appended claims.

.Having thus described my invention, jwhatl claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

,1. A. sausage broiler comprising an oven having heat insulated walls, a door in the side of said oven, means for supporting the oven, a tube fixed in the end walls of the oven, gas pipes arranged parallel to said tube, said pipes having jet openings to impinge on said tube, control means for said pipes, rollers-at the endsof said tube, and an endlessc-hain disposed over said rollers to travel through said tube.

2. A sausage broilercomprisi-ng an oven having heat insulated'walls, a door in the side of said oven, means for supporting the oven, a tube fixed in the end walls of the oven, gas pipes arranged parallel to said tube, said pipes having jet "openings to impinge on said tube, ventilating means for "the oven, a conveyor passing through the of said tube, are ler'on said-frame, a conveyor chain trained over all of said rollers and passing through said tube, and a platticles passed therethrough.

4. A sausage broiler comprising a stand,

form at the end, of said tube to receivear- Ill) passing through the tube, means for guiding .a heat insulated casing supported by the stand, an oven tube fixed at its ends in said casing, said tube having open ends, controllable means in said casing to heat said tube, a conveyor movable through the tube, and means actuated by the passage of an article through the tube for applying a condiment thereto.

6. A sausage broiler comprising a stand,

a heat insulated casing supported by the stand, an oven tube fixed at its ends in said casing, said tube having open ends, controllable means in said casing to heat said tube, rollers at the ends of said tube, a roller on said stand, an endless conveyor chain trained over all of said rollers to pass through said tube, a mustard container at the delivery end of said tube, and means for automatically dispensing mustard from said container upon a sausage as delivered from said container.

This specification signed and witnessed this 25th day of June, 1925.

OTTO FEST. 

